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Active membership in UK occupational pensions waning

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
... risen over the same period, despite the reclassification of some large public sector schemes such as the Post Office and the BBC, to the private sector from 2000. There were an estimated 5.3 million active members in 2011 compared with 4.2 million in ...

ESG sheds light on Sov debt crisis: AXA IM

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... Catalonia's finance minister raised the prospect of a regional bailout for the major Spanish region, in an interview with BBC Radio, as fears grow that Spain will need a full international bailout. On Monday ratings agency Moody's lowered the outlook ...

Offshore tax havens bank $32tr: report

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
... tax havens, depriving governments worldwide of as much as $250bn in tax revenues every year. The report's author told the BBC that the study was like "measuring the size of a black hole", and that his findings were conservative. The Price of Offshore ...

Barclays chief resigns

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... that this was the decision of the board and of Mr Diamond, and I think Mr Diamond made the right decision," Osborne told the BBC. Diamond is due to appear before the parliamentary inquiry on Wednesday, where his memo concerning the Bank of England is ...

Fidelity backs move to empower shareholders

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... Prime Minister David Cameron's calls for more transparency on executive pay, bonuses and severance packages. Speaking to the BBC earlier this week, Cameron said there was a "market failure" that saw the average pay of FTSE executives increase by up to ...

Machines of loving grace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... pan out. That blip up in the indices you saw last night was "all watched over by machines of loving grace" (borrowed from BBC's documentary series by Adam Curtis).

Action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011

BBC denies trader a hoax interview

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
The BBC has denied the trader who became an overnight Internet sensation, Alessio Rastani, was a hoax interview. London based independent trader, Alessio Rastani claimed in an interview, aired on the BBC on Monday that he went to bed every night "dreaming ...

Unions threaten strikes with BBC pension reforms looming

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010

Pushing on a string

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009